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Himabindu
Pucha
Post-doctoral Fellow
Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University
Email: hpucha at cs dot cmu dot edu
Address: 5000, Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
15213
Office: 8106, Wean Hall
Tel: (412) 268-7663
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Research
My broad research interests span the areas of distributed systems and
networking. My major research theme is building systems that improve the
performance of data transfers or provide them with underlying support (e.g.,
routing) within and across networked, distributed systems that span a range
of scale and mobility
A complete list of my publications is available by project, type, date. I have also compiled a list of my talks.
Selected Publications (in chronological order):
- "Ditto: A System for Opportunistic
Caching in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks", ACM MobiCom, 2008.
- "Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse
Environments", USENIX ATC, 2008.
- "Studying Wireless Routing Link Dynamics",
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC, 2007.
- "Overlay Node Placement: Analysis, Algorithms
and Impact on Applications", IEEE ICDCS,
2007.
- "Understanding Network Delay Changes
Caused by Routing Events", ACM SIGMETRICS, 2007.
- "Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source
Downloads using File Handprints", USENIX NSDI, 2007. This
work has been featured in an article on
slashdot and on BBC.
Other press coverage includes MIT Technology
Review, ars
technica and a Wiki
entry.
- "Imposing Route Reuse in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Routing Protocols using Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Routing",
IEEE TPDS, 2006 and HotOS 2003. This
work has been cited 50+ times.
- "On the Impact of Research Network Based Testbeds
on Wide-area Experiments", ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC, 2006.
- "Symmetrical-Fairness in Infrastructure Access
in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE ICDCS,
2005.
- "Performance Comparison of Scalable Location
Services for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing", IEEE INFOCOM, 2005 and COMNET 2007. This
work has been cited 35+ times.
- "Ekta: An Efficient DHT Substrate for
Distributed Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE
HotMobile [WMCSA], 2004.
This work has been cited 50+ times.
Along the way, I assisted in teaching
freshman and senior level courses and completed successful internships. I also contribute to my research
area by participating in peer review
process and serving on program
committees.
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Awards
- First Prize, ACM
Student Research Competition, 2007 [Winner List]
- First Prize, ACM
Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper Conference, 2007 [Winner List]
- Google Anita Borg
Memorial Scholar, 2006 [Press
Release] [News Story]
(award rate: top 5% of US applicants)
- Finalist, Purdue University, Intel Foundation Ph.
D. Fellowship, 2006
- Violet B Haas
Engineering Educator Award, Purdue
University, 2005 [News
Release]
- IEEE AT&T Student Enterprise Award,
2001
- Ratan Tata Scholar,
1999 and 2000
- Travel Awards [GHC 2007, ACM SRC 2007, ACM SOSP 2007, USENIX NSDI 2007, ACM IMC 2006, ACM SIGCOMM 2005]
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Brief
Bio
I am currently a post-doctoral researcher with Dave Andersen in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I received my Ph.D.
in December 2007 under the guidance of Y. Charlie Hu from the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Purdue University, USA. I have previously received my Masters
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue
University and my Bachelors degree
in Electronics Engineering from University of
Bombay, India.
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More
Stuff
I had a chance to learn from many great people through courses in undergraduate and graduate schools. A good
list of call for papers is here.
Over the years, I have traveled to many beautiful places across the world,
had a lot of fun hiking, caving and riding in a helicopter. Check out this personal page.
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